Chapter 124 Farce, Sea Trial

"The nuclear fusion reactor is working normally.

Han Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

The energy supply module is one of the two most important modules in a spacecraft.

Thousands of engineers and scientists who are responsible for the energy module carefully check various parameters, constantly adjust its working status, and look for any possible problems.

This aspect of the test takes some time. Han Yang's attention is now on another crucial module.

Propulsion system.

In today's solar system, spacecraft propulsion mainly adopts ion propulsion mode.

Its basic principle is similar to that of a particle accelerator.

The electricity generated by the nuclear fusion reactor is converted into kinetic energy of ions through an accelerator, which is accelerated to a very high speed and ejected backward from the nozzle of the ion engine to obtain reverse thrust to propel the spacecraft forward.

As for the sources of ions, there are many kinds. In addition to the specially carried working fluid, there is also domestic garbage generated in the spacecraft.

The garbage is useless anyway, so it is better to ionize it directly and turn it into ions and eject it.

The testing of the propulsion system is also extremely complicated. People need to test instantaneous thrust, maximum thrust, precise thrust, steering, Acceleration, advancement, high-radiation propulsion, structural stability and many other aspects.

In space, the huge spacecraft was brightly lit, and the main engine at the tail gradually lit up. A beam of light with a bright blue color violently spurted out, pushing the huge spacecraft forward gradually.

There were also some smaller beams of light on both sides of it.

Those were steering and attitude adjustment engines.

In the test field, the spacecraft began various maneuvers.

In addition to these two major systems, the rest of the systems, such as circulation, power supply, life support, and rotation systems, also started synchronous testing.

During the one-month test, a total of tens of thousands of problems or faults emerged, all of which were not discovered before.

But this did not affect the mood of the team members at all, but made them more excited.

Such a large spacecraft, billions of parts, thousands of subsystems, from scrapping to refurbishment at this moment, only tens of thousands of problems were tested? And they were all small problems?

We are really awesome!

The team members were excited and solved one by one until no new problems could be tested.

"This spacecraft is named, Fuxing No. 1! "

At the celebration party, Han Yang announced the news with great enthusiasm.

The next moment, in the Fuxing Dismantling Building, the cheers of nearly 10,000 people shook the roof tiles.

"Fuxing No. 1! Fuxing No. 1!"

The test field test is completed, and the next step is the sea trial.

The sea trial here is of course not the sea on the planet, but the sea of ​​stars.

At this time, Liu Fujun jumped out again.

Yaoxing Media under his name directly released an interview program, which once again pushed Fuxing Dismantling to the forefront.

"Hello everyone, this is the daily commentary column, I am the host A Yao.

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Today, we specially invited Dr. Li Hongsheng, an expert in spacecraft structure. Hello, Dr. Li, what do you think of Fuxing Dismantling's claim that the Fuxing No. 1 spacecraft is about to start sea trials?

Hello everyone, I am Li Hongsheng. I will not talk about technology today, but common sense and logic.

As we all know, spacecraft maintenance is an industry with extremely high technical content, extremely high requirements for teamwork, and extremely high requirements for overall control.

An outsider who had never been involved in the spacecraft manufacturing industry, nor in the spacecraft disassembly and maintenance industry, spent money to build a makeshift team, and it took only eight months - you heard it right, only eight months, to complete the renovation of a scrapped spacecraft, do you believe it?

Haha, it seems that Dr. Li is quite pessimistic about Fuxing 1.

Of course. I can even assert that Fuxing 1 spacecraft will not even get an airworthiness certificate.

This is just a farce hosted by Han Yang.

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Without an airworthiness certificate, the Fuxing-1 spacecraft is not even qualified to go on the road except for the test route.

Han Yang didn't care about the heated public opinion.

Although it was indeed a gamble as they said.

For the repair of Fuxing-1, Han Yang invested a lot of money after the acquisition, and almost drained the cash flow of Fuxing Group.

If the sea trial of Fuxing-1 fails, the entire Fuxing Group will be affected, and it may even collapse.

This is the inevitable consequence of leapfrog development.

But Han Yang has no choice. The noose that the Itar people put on the neck of human civilization is getting tighter and tighter, and he must hurry up.

Fortunately, Han Yang has enough confidence in his heart. Grip.

At the test site, the huge Fuxing-1 spacecraft, driven by dozens of high-speed ion thrusters, slowly accelerated and flew towards the moon.

The specially recruited experienced shipping team guarded the spacecraft control room, which was only in microgravity due to acceleration, as if facing a great enemy.

In the Fuxing disassembly building, nearly 10,000 engineers were also concentrating, carefully monitoring the operating status of each system of the spacecraft.

This level of attention is already high enough. But Han Yang still dispatched thousands of robots to guard various parts of the Fuxing-1 spacecraft, directly connected to his mind through long-distance communication.

If there is a sudden failure anywhere, he can immediately operate the robot to rush to repair it.

Of course, under normal circumstances, he will not show up for some minor failures.

This is just the last resort.

The Fuxing-1 spacecraft was accelerating at a speed of up to 1 meter/S^2. In just two hours, it increased its speed to 7.2 kilometers per second. Counting the basic speed of its previous orbit around the earth, its speed relative to the moon has now increased to about 13 kilometers per second.

This speed is actually not very fast, but what needs to be tested in this sea trial is actually just the full-power acceleration rate, which is used to test the reliability of the nuclear fusion reactor and ion thruster.

When it was about to approach the moon, the Fuxing-1 spacecraft decelerated at the same rate, then relied on the moon's gravity to bypass the moon, and then started to accelerate back to the earth. When it arrived at the test site, it decelerated again. It took a total of one day to complete this mission. test.

There are still some problems exposed in this test, but they are also minor and the number is much lower than before.

After completing the lunar sea trials, the next step is the Mars sea trials.

The Fuxing-1 spacecraft needs to go to Mars and back to test its overall stability.

During this test, Han Yang submitted an application to the Interstellar Transportation Committee and asked them to send qualification reviewers to participate in the sea trial.

All went well with the voyage. Although some minor problems appeared again during the process, they were all dispensable. Han Yang directly threw a large amount of money at him, and the qualification reviewers immediately shut their mouths.

The airworthiness certificate was successfully issued.